如今,应用型人才培养成为高等教育发展的新趋势。外语专业的“应用型人才”的必须具备良好的社会语言能力。说起来简单,培养起来却并非易事,它需要每位教师潜心专研,逐渐形成全新的教学模式,使受教育者能够与交流对象消除社会、文化背景等诸多障碍,实现沟通目的。因此本文重点要研讨的就是社会语言能力的内涵和对应用型人才培养的重要意义,以及在葡语教学中如何培养社会语言能力的有效途经。 Today, the cultivation of applied talents has become a new trend in the development of higher education. Foreign language professional “applied talents ” must have good social language ability. Simply speaking, it is not easy to cultivate. It requires every teacher devote themselves to researching and gradually forming a brand new teaching mode so that the educated can eliminate obstacles such as social and cultural background with the target of communication and achieve the purpose of communication. Therefore, the focus of this article is to discuss the connotation of social language competence and the importance of cultivating applied talents, and how to cultivate the social language ability in Portuguese teaching.